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The Day of the Lord, or, Israel's retvrn with an humble presentation of the divine characters whereby this wonderfull day may seem very neer approaching.
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assistance to unravell one Text by another As for the marginal reference pointing at John the Baptist the (c) Admit the Fathers erred concerning the person and some other circumstances about this Elias yet might the substance of their opinion be true for so they err'd in many part culars of the person quality and reign of Antichrist yet for the substance the thing was true Fathers if we dare credit them may deliver us of that scruple generally inclining that Christs his second coming as well as his former shall be usher'd in by that celestial harbinger and probably the same Elias too viz. John the Baptist If so the margent breeds no repugnancy at al. It any yet had rather construe this chapter of our Lords former coming I require of him how he dares cad that the Terrible Day of the Lord burning as an Oâ—en and devouring all the wicked root and branch vers 1. which our Saviour himself calls the Acceptâ—ble yâ—er of the Lord that proclames general mercy to the Captives sight to the blind c. Luke 4.18 19 21. How can that so sweet a day be the same with this so dreadfull which sweeps a way root and branch and allowes no quarter to the ungodly or who will say that the spiritually (*) Remember the Apostles phrase Led captive by the Devill c. Captiv'd and blind are not during such captivity in the state of wickedness yet not then confounded but illuminated But especially how was it true of the Holy Baptist in his former ministry which yet Truth it self spake of him that Elias first comes and restoreth all things Mark 9.12 The phrase being the same with what Saint Peter useth Acts 3. Restitution of all things affixt to the time when he shall be reveal'd from heaven verse 21 But of that time Saint Paul will satisfie us 2 Thess 1.8 that it is when he comes in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God Surely this very flaming day in Malachie when the ungodly shall be as the stubble and that day as a burning Oven Lastly who can possibly understand the Prophecy otherwise than of Israel's restitution it being so consonant to the rest of the Holy (*) See Joel Zach c. ut supra Joel 2.31 Great and Terrible Day Note The glorious promises began to draw out in Christs former coming the Kingdom as was before advertis'd being the same though the state twofold Whence it comes to pass that this Prophecy of 2. Joel is quoted in Acts 2. of those dayes to wit The Mystery beginning to issue forth then but not to receive full accomplishment as to diverse particulars till this Terrible Day Usheâ—d in by the Suns darkness the Moons turning into blood c. all which the Evangelists themselves in the receiv'd opinion of the Church refer to the time of judgment Truly this Note if well observ'd might cure many the like webs in this controversy Pen-men who constantly date it on that Terrible Day Pick any other meaning from the second and third verse who can Onely take in the fourth verse for a Monitor that Israel is here spoken to in propriâ personâ And for a corollary See how easily the sixt verse comes up to the same sense He shall turn or (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Mark 9.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so in Acts 3.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quaere Whether this notion viz. conversion of the Jews may not chiefly denominate Christs second coming The time of restitution restore see the LXX the hearts of the Fathers to the Children and the hearts of the Children to the Fathers i.e. He shall bring the refractary and unbelieving postery of the Jewish nation to have the same heart and minde their holy Fathers and Progenitors had who feared God and beleeved his promises that so their Fathers might as it were rejoyce in them and own them for their own children In plain English he shall convert them to the faith of that Christ whom their Fathers hoped in and looked for I am now much deceived unless holy Gabriel interpret it the same way Luke 1 16 17. both in speaking literally of Israel and in paraphrasing the latter part And The Hearts of Children to their Fathers by And The disobedient to the Wisedom of the just Read the Blessed Angels comment thorow He shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias to turn or restore the hearts of the Fathers to the Children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the Just to make ready a people prepared for the Lord to wit he shall reduce the disobedient off-spring who now kick at Christ to the wisdom and piety of the most zealous of their Fathers c. This by the way is most sure that the Gentiles in Christs former coming had gain'd little by this promise in being effected upon them namely restoring the hearts of the fathers to the children their Ancestry being all Pagan As to the main difficultie of the Apocalyptical Gog and Magog swarming and perishing at the end of the 1000. years I commend every sober Reader to the learned discourse of the worthy Mr. Mead whose judgment about it was exceeding solid and vertuously modest as truly in all his tenets and so powerfully convincing that no worse man than Dr. Twisse admir'd his discovery Be onely thus far advertis'd that Gog and Magog in the Revelation are very far different from those in Ezek. cap. 39. the one namely to be destroy'd at the beginning the other at the end of that renowned chiliad So hath it pleas'd his wisdome with two fiery conquests to begin and end that Terrible Day The Dawning whereof or beginning of the Millennium is attended with the first resurrection and the morning-judgment on the then-appearing enemies of his Kingdom the evening shut up with the universal resurrection and the final perdition of the latter Gog and Magog with the casting of Satan into his everlasting dungeon There 's none I hope will so distrust Gods providence as to question the means of deliverance from the wrathfull flames of that day How easy is it for the God we serve to send forth fire with a limited commission The guard of Angels upon the elect Matth. 24.31 is neither weak nor subject to oversight The God of the Christians can secure us if he please without sindging in the midst of the furnace Dan. 3.27 Or peradventure the objects of that fury shall be separated within the appointed lists of vengeance Who can say but that Holy Joel's valley of * Jehosâ—phat Chap. 3.12 and St. John's [*] Quaere if the valley be not S. Johns Armag Armageddon Rev. 16.16 may intimate some such thing And why may not St. Pauls catching up in the clouds and meeting our Saviour in the air point at some miraculous rescue from that burning oven It may not perchance work much upon any to hear that the Jews can produce a [*] From Rabbi Elias
[*] It being formerly cleer'd that these things are spoke of Jer. in person Jer. evidently to be meant on earth to be establisht In the Dayes of their Messiah or David their Prince David being dead long before these things were spoken The Lord our Righteousness is his name But it can not be pretended that these things were fullfill'd in the Messiahs first coming for then Judah and Israel did not [a] We well know when they were separated but 't is hard to say when they met unlesse we make the sending of a single priest to instruct the Pagans planted in Samaria to be the return of the 10. Tribes from their captivity 2 Kings 17.27 'T will proove but a very pinch'd Synechdoche to cramp 10. Tribes in one person dwell together I am sure they did not dwell as one Nation Ezek. 37.22 The Samaritan woman is a competent witness Joh. 4.9 Much lesse did they dwell safely without molestation from their enimies Ezek. 34.28 Therefore these of necessity as the Jews and the old Christians expected are to receive performance at the Messiah's second comming You will not I am sure denie but the same thing is promis'd in this place of Ezek. and its complices as in Js 60. for that appears by comparing Ezek. 37.21 with Js 60.14 15. Besides the whole description matcheth in each place The forecited Chap. of Holy Daniel is worthy of a second survey being questionlesse the sacred store I use from whence the description of the day of judgment is deriv'd in so many correspondencies of the New Testament viz. That the [*] The ground on which the New Testament calleth our Saviour the son of man is most certainly taken from this place in Dan. son of man shall come in the clouds In the Glory of his father with his Holy Angels in reference to the 10. and 13. v. That Antichrist shall be destroyed with the brightness of his coming as Daniel had foretold of the little Horn. v. 26. That the Destruction should be by fire it being said v. 9 10. His throne was a fiery flame and his wheeles as burning fire A fiery stream issu'd and came forth from before him c. And why I would fain know may we not bring hither St. Johns parallel from Rev. 20.4 I saw thrones and they sate upon them and judgment was given unto them answering Daniel 7.9 10. I beheld till the thrones were pitched down and the judgment was set and v. 22. judgment was given to the saints of the most high What difference I pray betwixt St. Johns and the saints lived and reigned with Christ and Daniels The Saints possessed the kingdom viz. with the son of man who came in the clouds Think other men as they please I cannot for my own part be perswaded considering the wonderfull twist of agreement running through the whole scripture but that this kingdom of the son of man when the saints shall reign with him and all people nations and languages shall serve him v. [*] Vid Rev. 7.9 All nations kindred people and tongues a description of the same kingdom as the context and citations justisâ—e 14. is the very same with what hath been so unanimously inculcated from the rest of the Prophets concerning the Jews conversion and the Gentiles inlargement One thing In the mean time I think will scarce be question'd that Daniels date seems to be the day of judgment agreeably to Js 66.10.12.15.16.19.20.22 Where mention is made of the fiery indignation to be powred forth The Glory of Jerusalems restauration and the Gentiles fullnesse with New Heavens c. in one and the same particular Prophecy By this time we may I hope make a shift to sift out St. Peters meaning in referring his Readers to the Prophets about the same glory and the same commencement viz. New Heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness to be founded at his coming 2. Epist 3. Chap. 2.4.13 v. c. From which Chapter though some busie heads may possibly frame objections to frustrate the expectation raised namely from the conflagration and dissolution here mention'd yet let them know that by the same industry they must disappoint St. Peters meaning too who notwithstanding such dissolution teacheth us to expect the accomplishment of that mystery mention'd by the Prophets of New Heavens c. By which if after recourse to the Prophets we find any thing els that can be meant consonant to the other scriptures than what I have hitherto instanc'd I shall willingly retract all this for the advantage of so desiderable a satisfaction Till then may these following considerations be accepted as neither impertinent nor tedious First Whether St. Peter since he sends us to the Prophets v. 2. had not probably an eye amongst other Prophecies to Js 65. from the 17. to the end and Js 60. through the whole Chapter but especially v. 21 The which allegations who ever shall decline from affixing them on the consolation of Js let him weigh maturely before he speak lest his praecipitancy impeach [*] See before what was observ'd from Rom. 11. 25 26. St. Paul as an accessory to his rashnesse Secondly Whether it be not rational to conclude that the Apostle at the 8. v. had respect to the common saying of the Jews to whom [a] Vid his entrance to his first Epist To the strangers scattered c. i. e. Jews dispersed c. he writ whose formal words of the Day of judgment were wont to be One day with the Lord is as a thousand years rather than to the 90. Ps where the words One day with the Lord is as a thousand years are not though the latter part of the sentence A thousand years as one day may allude thither And who should not sooner judge that the same form of speaking quoted by Justin Martyr and Irenaeus two renowned primitive witnesses to this truth was taken from this Epist of St. Peter than from the foremention'd Ps Forasmuch as they likewise use it as the Jewish Doctors did for the day of judgment Justin Martyr distinctly alleging in these terms treating of that day we know that that saying The day of the Lord is as a thousand years points hither Thirdly Whether the fiery devastation here describ'd be any greater rubb to this hope of Israel than the same intimation in Holy Dan. Chap. 7. and Js 66. where also the fiery vengeance is mention'd and yet the Iews restoring most pregnantly avouched or than the tenour of the whole Bible which constantly ranketh this glory under the 7. Trumpet Fourthly Whether this wonderfull concordance of St. Peter with the rest of the scripture ought not to perswade us that the coming of our Lord here mention'd v. 4. at which he [b] By comparing the 4. v. Where is the promise of his coming with 13. v. According to his promise appears plainly that the Promise is fixt at his coming pitcheth this stately change is his expected personal coming to judgment